About us

Built by students who wanted something better.

We’re Shrey and Dhyan, two 15-year-old friends who have been in the same school and have known each other since Grade 2. Like every student around us, we were fed up with study websites that force you to sign up, interrupt you with ads, and lock useful content behind paywalls. So we built something better.

On Padhona, all essential study material is free, and you don’t need an account to access it. Open the site and start studying.

Padhona Plus is an optional ₹29 lifetime purchase that gives you access to additional study tools. You pay once. There are no renewals or hidden charges.

We made Padhona because good study material should be available to every student, regardless of whether they can pay for it.

The people behind Padhona

Meet the founders.

  1. Shrey Shah

    Co-Founder, Padhona

    Shrey is a 15-year-old Grade 10 student who has always had a sharp academic mind and an eye for spotting what’s broken. Padhona started with him noticing a problem that every student deals with but nobody bothered to fix.

  2. Dhyan Vaidya

    Co-Founder, Padhona

    Dhyan is a 15-year-old Grade 10 student who coded Padhona from the ground up. Give him an idea and he’ll build it. The website you’re using right now is entirely his work.